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• Computer science is not as old as physics; it lags by a couple of hundred years. However, this does not mean that there is significantly less on the computer scientist's plate than on the physicist's: younger it may be, but it has had a far more intense upbringing!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Couple, Mean, Years

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• My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.

  Graham Swift

  Opposites

  "How did I end up becoming a novelist?" by Edward Marriott, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2009.

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• You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing.

  Thomas Keneally

  Believe, Kids, Flesh

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• And other people get the opportunity to leave prison, and then they do something to get put back in there because they can't actually function in society. It's really cool because you get to see all these different women, their backstories, where they come from, their upbringing and why they get to where they get to, and they're all completely different. It's really cool that you get to see all those storylines.

  Laura Prepon

  Opportunity, People, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual, and that when the naturally better element controls the worse then the man is said to be "master of himself", as a term of praise. But when - as a result of bad upbringing or bad company one s better element is overpowered by the numerical superiority of one s worse impulses, then one is criticized for not being master of oneself and for lack of self control.

  Plato

  Character, Mean, Men

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• My upbringing was solid because of the people I had around me.

  Kevin Hart

  People

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• I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world.

  Mary-Kate Olsen

  Wish, World

  "Mary-Kate Olsen: 'I would never wish my upbringing on anyone'". www.mtv.com. August 05, 2010.

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• What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Parent, World, Wealth

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• When I look back on it, I think, "Why didn't you stop the cruelty earlier?" To stand back was contrary to my upbringing and nature. When I stood back as a noninterfering experimental scientist, I was, in a sense, as drawn into the power of the situation as any prisoners and guards.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Thinking, Looks, Scientist

  "Finding Hope in Knowing the Universal Capacity for Evil " by Claudia Dreifus, www.nytimes.com. April 3, 2007.

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• I had what I would consider a normal upbringing and, which to me, a normal American up - upbringing for an American male child almost gears you towards going into the military.

  Peter P. Mahoney

  Children, Military, Males

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• India is a civilization where the principle and philosophy of sacrifice is ingrained as part of our upbringing.

  Narendra Modi

  Philosophy, Sacrifice, Civilization

  "Exclusive Interview With Narendra Modi: 'We Are Natural Allies'". Interview with Nancy Gibbs, Zoher Abdoolcarim, Nikhil Kumar, time.com. May 7, 2015.

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• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." The adage is true as long as you don't really believe the words. But if your whole upbringing, and everything you have ever been told by parents, teachers and priests, has led you to believe, really believe, utterly and completely, that sinners burn in hell (or some other obnoxious article of doctrine such as that a woman is the property of her husband), it is entirely plausible that words could have a more long-lasting and damaging effect than deeds.

  Richard Dawkins

  Teacher, Hurt, Husband

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• You don't know the things in your childhood that influence you. You can't possibly know them. People today try to analyze the early environment and the reasons for something that happened, but if you look at children of the same family -- children who have identical parents, go to identical schools, have an almost identical upbringing, and yet who have totally different experiences and neuroses -- you realize that what influences the children is not so much the obvious externals as their emotional experiences. Of course any psychiatrist knows that.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Children, School, Emotional

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• It may be my rather puritanical upbringing at odds with my inborn laziness that makes me feel guilty at the end of the day, unless I am able to point at some achievement. But this need be no more impressive than cooking a meal or going for a long walk.

  Ian Mckellen

  Long Walks, Odds, Achievement

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe that we all have the potential to love any human being, and that genetics, upbringing, choice, social conditioning and environment play a major part in which way we sway.

  Kathy Najimy

  Believe, Play, Choices

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• After a few days in hospital, I was thinking, Oh, gee - I raised in a church, Protestant upbringing which I'd rejected as an adult - I'm lying in bed thinking, Hmmm, maybe I ought to pray. They always say there are no atheists in a foxhole... and I thought, Here I am in a pretty good-sized foxhole... and I thought Naahhh. I wouldn't respect any God who would listen to me after I'd rejected him so vociferously.

  Chuck Close

  Atheist, Lying, Thinking

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• I had a good upbringing, we didn't have any money, but there was a lot of love in my family.

  Danny Dyer

  My Family, Good Upbringing

  "Question Time". Interview With Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2009.

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• I had quite a religious upbringing. I gave my life over to Christ at 11. I took it back when I was about 14.

  Brian Molko

  Religious, Back When, Christ

  "Happy Pills". Interview with Lawrence Ferber, www.laweekly.com. May 9, 2001 |.

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• People ask my mother whether she had any idea that I'd be CEO of a company some day, and she would say, 'Absolutely not. Totally out of the realm of possibility.' There was certainly nothing that would have been very predictable in my upbringing.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Mother, Ideas, People

  "Mulcahy traces steps of Xerox's comeback". Interview with Kevin Maney, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 21, 2006.

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• Ours was a very progressive Protestant family, but my parents were God-loving rather than God-fearing. We went to church, and I still go with my mum and dad when I return home - it's a family thing. I played flute in my dad's marching band, but I had an integrated upbringing. We had a lot of Catholic friends.

  James Nesbitt

  Dad, Home, Parent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Not disown my past or upbringing, but I'd admired American actors, really American movie star - particularly the rebel heroes of the '50s.

  Maxwell Caulfield

  Stars, Hero, Past

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing.

  Joseph Stefano

  Ideas, Hiking, Backgrounds

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• I mean, I didn't have a huge upbringing with movies, I guess.

  Peter Jackson

  Mean, Huge

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• The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.

  Tom Wopat

  Education, Country, Rocks

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• It is quite clear that beauty does depend on one's culture and upbringing for certain kinds of beauty, pictures, literature, poetry and so on...But mathematical beauty is of a rather different kind. I should say perhaps it is of a completely different kind and transcends these personal factors. It is the same in all countries and at all periods of time.

  Paul Dirac

  Country, Doe, Different

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